14-04-29 Once when Confucius was in the state of Chu, he saw a stooped（弯腰） old man glue cicadas（蝉） with a pole. He did this as easily as pick up things on the ground. Confucius asked him what the secret was. The old man said, Five six months after I b...

14-01-18 Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), and attached to free-flying birds on migration, have gained ground-breaking insights into the...

13-12-19 Demeter Speaks After a Long Silence Rosemary Catacalos Who are you, gardener? You dig deeply into me, into the dark home of the old woman who is a childless worm, an imperfect memory of grace. She recollects everything when you touch her, grows wing...

13-11-25 Many owl species have developed specialized plumage to effectively eliminate the aerodynamic（空气动力学的） noise from their wings -- allowing them to hunt and capture their prey in silence. A research group working to solve the mystery of exactly...

13-10-30 A man once caught an eagle, and after clipping his wings turned him loose among the fowls（家禽） in his hen-house, where he moped in a corner, looking very dejected（沮丧的） and forlorn（绝望的） . After a while his captor was glad enough to sell...

12-11-08 A South American butterfly flapped its wings, and caused a flurry of nanotechnology research to happen in Ohio. Researchers in Ohio have taken a new look at butterfly wings and rice leaves, and learned things about their microscopic texture that cou...

12-08-30 University of Alberta researchers found evidence that a feathered, but flightless dinosaur was able to snag（抓住机会） and consume small flying dinosaurs. The U of A paleontology team found the fossilized remains of three flying dinosaurs in the be...

12-08-17 He lost his arms in an accident that claimed his father's life who was the main source of support for the family. Since then, he has had to depend on the arms of his younger brother. For the sake of taking care of him, his younger brother became his...

12-07-26 For monarch butterflies, redder wings are correlated with better flight performance, according to research published July 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Previous work has shown that monarch coloring is intended to warn their predators about...

11-01-05 Long before the knights of medieval（中世纪的） Europe wielded flails（连枷） or martial artists（武术家） brandished nunchucks（双截棍） , it appears that a flightless prehistoric bird used its own wings as a similar type of weapon in combat. Paleo...